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Obama in the mud: So much for honesty
UnionLeader.com ^ | September 21, 2008 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 09/21/2008 1:06:09 AM PDT by Puzzleman

When Barack Obama first began campaigning in New Hampshire in early 2007, many voters swooned. We watched him speak to retirees in Claremont one snowy February day that year. Not a single voter we talked with before he spoke planned to vote for him. Afterwards, many said they would. The word that spontaneously came from the lips of multiple attendees: sincere. They couldn't remember a politician who spoke with such sincerity, they said. And many of them had been voting since World War II.

We wonder what those same voters think of Obama's sincerity now. In the past few weeks, Obama has thrown so many false accusations against John McCain that just keeping track of them has become difficult...

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: bo; democrat; democrats; electionads; mccain; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden
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1 posted on 09/21/2008 1:06:09 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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To: Puzzleman

Obama isn’t a messiah. He’s just another corrupt politician from Chicago.


2 posted on 09/21/2008 1:10:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (What's good for Enron is good for Fannie and Freddie! I want some convictions! NOW!!!!!)
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[Post no. 39] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (September 20, 2008 -- Click Here.)

3 posted on 09/21/2008 1:13:43 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Puzzleman
This is not the Barack Obama so many voters in New Hampshire and elsewhere thought they knew.

I guess it's time for Obama to throw himself under the bus.

4 posted on 09/21/2008 1:15:57 AM PDT by AZLiberty (You can't power the U.S. economy on Democrat snake oil.)
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To: whoever

Other links about Obama / Biden:

A Tale from the Land of Fifty-seven States [Great Obama Satire]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051971/posts

“Unmasking The Source of an Internet Rumor” [FR is hurting the Obama campaign!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083907/posts

Franklin Raines [cached version of Wikepedia entry before changes]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085498/posts

Can Obama Survive the Annenberg Cover Up?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067136/posts

In depth connection of Obama with Ayers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2082410/posts?page=7#7

Ayers and the Weathermen / Weather Underground Sexual Rites
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/posts?page=5780#5780

Annenberg documents show extensive contacts between Obama and Ayers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069392/posts

In Depth on Obama and ACORN
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI

McCain aware of Fannie/Freddie problem in 2006 [Obama tried to steal thunder]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084035/posts

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS’ IRAQ WITHDRAWAL [election is over?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082538/posts

BO ripped off lines from a cartoon in Pig Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078816/posts

BO’s Childhood Mentor, Frank [Marshal Davis] a Pervert?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/posts?page=5777#5777

Obama research thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050268/posts

Tasting GOP Blood — Biden and Obama want to Indict Bush Administration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074973/posts

Should Bill Ayers (Obama confident) be tried for his crimes as a fugitive...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067074/posts

Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054556/posts

Barack Obama Would Back Daughters’ Abortion, “Don’t Punish Them With a Baby” ( 3/31/08 )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072884/posts

With Abortion Backing, Is It Fair to Say Barack Obama Supports Infanticide?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058671/posts

opposition research on Biden [helps to browse posts]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066634/posts

Vanity: Where was Michelle? [Obama on 9-11 anniversary]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080275/posts

Transcript of Obama’s verbal opposition to Born Alive on the IL Senate floor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065303/posts

Tales From The 57 States: John Wins in Shaman Rick’s House
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065394/posts

Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption (Knowing your enemies is half the battle)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081859/posts

Reparations By Another Name [”Obama has a name for his scheme: ‘universal strategies.’”]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058990/posts

Radical tied to Obama compared US actions to 9/11
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071402/posts

Obama’s Freudian Slip - “My Muslim faith...” - Obama (See #260, #261)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076683/posts?page=260#260

Obama Campaign Countering Obama Nation Writer Jerome Corsi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061919/posts

Obama Campaign Threatens Jihad Against TV Stations That Air Weathermen Ad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067913/posts

Obama Convention throws US Flags in the Trash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071409/posts

Obama Convention throws US Flags in the Trash [photo evidence]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071409/posts

Obama Flipped off Hillary
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2078872/posts?page=19#19

Giuliani slams Obama for lack of political transparency after adviser visits Syria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065431/posts

GOD’S TIMING — AYERS ARTICLE ON 9-11-01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2079863/posts

GOP’s Greek-Column Ridicule Of Obama — Racist?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071698/posts

The Obama rose “jump-shot” at the 9/11 memorial
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080852/posts

Glenn Beck: Obama Soviet Anthem [Song will Decimate Obama]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065247/posts

Obama is the “messiah” [Louis Farrakhan] - The “sign” is that the youth are following him
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055302/posts

Obama Just Saved The World! [Tim Kaine steps in it big time]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060694/posts

Obama Lied About Abortion Record
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060479/posts

Obama Adviser Slammed for “Covert” Diplomacy [Obama’s Syria Mess]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065398/posts

Obama Bundler Who Stormed Palin Convention Speech Welcomed at Obama’s Elite Hollywood Fundraiser
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085540/posts

Obama camp still can’t verify return of Arab cash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060420/posts

Obama camp, Dems belittle Palin pick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070583/posts

MYSTERY SCHOOL RECORD ON OBAMA RESURFACES-IS IT GENUINE?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061654/posts

Even Michelle Obama Didn’t Know What a Community Organizer Was
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083792/posts

BREAKING: Debra McKenzie-Gude Obama Kooks Camp David Plot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058128/posts

Bad voter applications found (ACORN, Obama’s community organizers)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082520/posts

Barack Obama still Holds Kenyan citizenship ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059138/posts

Barack Obama’s broken promise to African village
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051896/posts

Another Radical Obama Association?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069660/posts

- - - Anti-Religion Speech - - -

Explosive Audio Found - Obama arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act - Audio
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065366/posts

Exposed: Obama mocks the Bible....absolutely mindboggling—a must watch!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056689/posts

FREEPERS DISSECT OBAMA’S ANTI-RELIGION SPEECH [VANITY]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2058229/posts

MHGinTN Dissects Obama’s Misuse in Scripture during Saddleback
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063307/posts

Inside Professor Obama’s Classroom [his exams are all about racism, homosexuals, etc]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053442/posts

Illegal cash to Obama: WND stands accused
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057919/posts

How many buildings did Bill Ayers and his wife try to blow up?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066083/posts

First Look at Controversial Obama Book (Corsi’s Obama Nation)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054932/posts

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Joe Biden has Ties to Tony Rezko
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086366/posts

Even Joe Biden is Opposed to Obama’s Extreme View on Born Alive ‘Abortions’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066669/posts

Joe Biden used 5 deferments to keep out of Vietnam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071911/posts

Joe Biden’s 1988 lie and his explanation: ‘’I exaggerate when I’m angry’’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066779/posts

Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy Had Racial Covenants
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556646/posts

Joe Biden, The King Of Comedy (Rush: Oh Man, We Prayed, We Begged, We Got Him!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080350/posts

Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not ‘Malevolent’ ( September 18, 1987 )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066581/posts

Biden Has Said Some Interesting Things
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066715/posts

Biden tells Israel, accept Iran’s bomb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072283/posts

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Obama’s Birth Certificate

Berg, Hillary Supporter, Sues regarding Obama’s Birth Certificate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066079/posts

Shocker: Obama’s “birth certificate” forged with sister Maya’s original
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056802/posts

Sister Maya’s Name Uncovered on Alleged Obama Birth Certificate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2056706/posts

Who Is He? Barack Obama Or Islamist Barry Soetoro?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2062327/posts

Obama’s birth certificate now brought to Attorney General in Hawaii
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2058616/posts

Obama’s Birth Certificate Status Irrelevant?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2082002/posts?page=12#12

Motion denied in Obama lawsuit (birth certificate)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073387/posts

Hillary’s PUMA supporters closely watching the Obama birth certificate lawsuit ( born in Kenya?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082242/posts

Found: Birth certificate for Obama in Kenya?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082196/posts

Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040486/posts

A Few Other Possibilities on Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate (Still, no one knows)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2060867/posts

2 campaigns seek ‘truth’ about Obama’s birth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058453/posts


5 posted on 09/21/2008 1:36:56 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW! NO STRINGS! You guys are great! FReep on!)
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To: Puzzleman

The word that spontaneously came from the lips of multiple attendees: sincere.

suckers. next time try to use this thing you have called a brain


6 posted on 09/21/2008 1:37:00 AM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: Puzzleman
Oh gee... the Union Leader has just endorsed McCain indirectly...

Even the weekend warriors (vacationers) read the Union Leader.

Terrific and true account of Obama's behavior.

7 posted on 09/21/2008 1:50:30 AM PDT by xtinct (Suicide Hotline... !! "Obama here" --> Please Hold...)
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To: Puzzleman
The word that spontaneously came from the lips of multiple attendees: sincere.

Once you can fake sincerity, the rest is easy.

8 posted on 09/21/2008 1:55:55 AM PDT by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: Bernard

Sociopaths find it very easy to fake sincerity, certainly for a little while, until they get what they want. The only good thing about having this campaign go on as long as it has is that Obama can’t fake sincerity forever; even a sociopath ends up dropping the mask, if only because he has moved on to another group by whom he wants to be accepted and now feels he can safely dump the first group he charmed.

Hopefully, by the time Election Day rolls around, the mask will have dropped off entirely and people will have had a chance to see the ugly, power-obsessed thing behind it.


9 posted on 09/21/2008 3:03:54 AM PDT by livius
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To: ari-freedom

> The word that spontaneously came from the lips of
> multiple attendees: sincere.
>
> suckers. next time try to use this thing you have called a
> brain

Ted Bundy’s victims thought he was “sincere”, too.


10 posted on 09/21/2008 3:38:24 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: livius

Keeping up the mask is costing Obama a lot of mental energy. He is making more mistakes and is having an ever harder time speaking without reading.

The debates could be interesting even though they will be stacked in Obama’s favor in terms of m”moderators”, questions, and audience selection. Even if Obama’s team is secretly given the questions beforehand, he will have to recite without a teleprompter.


11 posted on 09/21/2008 4:07:50 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: AZLiberty
But it is the real Barack Obama. For despite his rhetoric, he is in fact campaigning so dishonestly that even The Washington Post and The New York Times have called him on it.

But, but, but this is the Obamessiah how can they suggest he is dishonest? If only the media would remove all of the reporters in Alaska investigating Gov. Palin. (Also expose the dirty tricksters.) Then send these people to Chicago and in 3 days we'd know the real Barry Obama.

12 posted on 09/21/2008 4:49:17 AM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: Poincare; livius
He is wearing down, and sociopaths are capable of intense rage when thwarted. His handlers are worried, or they would never have resorted to the public humiliation of the teleprompter.

But the media knows he's in trouble, and that's a large part of the obsessive coverage of Palin as a distraction. They'll do everything they can to help him across the finish line, especially in the debates, but even that may not be enough for prevent meltdown.

Both Obamas are ticking time bombs at this point. Michelle's rage is so thinly concealed that she's capable of lighting his fuse, so they're being kept apart as much as possible, as evidenced by the weak excuse for her absence at Ground Zero.

May the match be lit.

13 posted on 09/21/2008 5:37:10 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: Puzzleman
But it is the real Barack Obama. For despite his rhetoric, he is in fact campaigning so dishonestly that even The Washington Post and The New York Times have called him on it.

We aren't even close to knowing the real Hussein, yet. You know it's over when The Slimes turns on one of its own.

14 posted on 09/21/2008 5:45:58 AM PDT by itsthejourney (Sarah-cuda IS the right reason)
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To: Puzzleman
It's about time somebody wrote this, and I'm glad to see it in a battleground state like New Hampshire.

I live in PA and I am SICK of the abject LIES in every single ad that Barack Obama is running! He is lying about John McCain's own words, he is lying about McCain's campaign team, he is lying about his own record in the Senate. I feel we have gone through the looking glass when all we hear on the news and in the papers is "McCain is lying." He is NOT lying, but Obama is.

15 posted on 09/21/2008 5:47:54 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (RIP Tony Snow, great American, father, and Christian)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

I am sick of no action taken against the media who are clearly nothing more than mouthpieces of the Obama campaign and the DNC. Every McCain spokesman or Republican needs to call them out on it EVERY appearance they make and cite these blatant examples of questions and hit pieces they do against McCain-Palin vs. their treatment of Obama and Biden. Never let up. They need to be brought to account for this criminal behavior in which they are abusing the first amendment. This is not at all what the founders had in mind and the press has crossed the line in being blatantly dishonest with their lies and propaganda for the Demonrats. And the only way they will be held to account is when they are CONTINUALLY called on it no matter what the conservative/GOP guests are there for an interview-make it THE issue. This charade cannot continue because these people are engaged in a form of tyranny. It needs to be confronted because they have crossed the line. Republicans/conservatives have nothing to lose and the media needs to be put in their place. I think a boycott is in order at some point as well.


16 posted on 09/21/2008 6:02:19 AM PDT by bushfamfan (Palin is America's Thatcher, Obama is America's Chamberlain)
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To: bushfamfan

I so agree with you.


17 posted on 09/21/2008 6:06:30 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Palin Power !!)
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To: Puzzleman

About five weeks to go, and the dems are worried that people will vote McCain for racial reasons. So they’re desperately trying innoculate the public, making whites feel guilty if they even entertain the notion that a black man isn’t up to the job. Never mind that Obama is an empty suit, and if they’d nominated someone qualified, they wouldn’t have to run around pointing accusing fingers. The end justifies the means. They’ll do anything to get back in power.

Meanwhile the mud slinging will go from bad to worse. As for the debates, the MSM will declare Obama and Biden overwhelming winners no matter what. (Remember GW’s debates with AlGore? AlGore looked like a fool, yet the MSM went on and on about his victories.) This time the drumbeat will be deafening, sickening, and many voters won’t bother to watch because they’re turned off by Obama’s dirty tactics.

As for Gov. Palin, we won’t see her face on the MSM. She’s become a non person except for negative attacks, but the fair Michelle turns up on magazine covers as a smiling beauty queen answering housewives’questions about baking and cleaning. Plus giving out Obama’s favorite homemade cookie recipe! Well, if Obama loses, blacks will think they’ve been robbed, and if they riot and people end up dead, Liberals and dems had better get down on their knees and beg God for forgiveness. But they won’t. It’ll be portrayed as McCain and the republican party’s fault. And the racist, bigoted American voters. Let’s hope the Libs all move to Europe.


18 posted on 09/21/2008 6:21:56 AM PDT by hershey
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To: browardchad; Poincare
He is wearing down, and sociopaths are capable of intense rage when thwarted. His handlers are worried, or they would never have resorted to the public humiliation of the teleprompter.

That's a very interesting observation. You're right about sociopaths growing enraged and potentially violent or dangerous when thwarted, and he certainly does seem to be getting more vicious and incoherent in his remarks.

I think you're right about Michelle, too; she's not a sociopath, just a radical left-winger with a racial obsession, but she could act as a trigger to him. It is odd that they never appear together.

19 posted on 09/21/2008 6:30:43 AM PDT by livius
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To: Puzzleman

Sincerity. Once you can fake that, you fake pretty much anything.


20 posted on 09/21/2008 7:06:46 AM PDT by glorgau
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